Our indsutry has numberous anagrams that may be initally a little confusing. We have provided this information in order to give you a better understanding of our industry.

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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W

ABA - American Bar Association
ACA - Areas of Competitive Advantage
AIAG - Automotive Industry Action Group: An industry organization formed to improve the competitiveness of the American automotive industry. It was an early developer of EDI standards.
AIM - Automatic Identification Manufacturers
ANA - Article Numbering Association
ANSI - American National Standards Institute: A non-profit organization chartered to develop and maintain voluntary American national standards. It is the U.S. representative to the International Standards Organization.
ASC X12 - ANSI's Accredited Standards Committee: The organization charged by ANSI with the development and maintenance of ANSI X12 standards.
ASN - Advanced Shipping Notice
ASYNC - Asynchronous data transmission protocol
ATM - Automated Teller Machine
BEA - British EDI Association
BISYNC (BSN) - Bisynchronous data transmission protocol
BPR - Business Process Reengineering
CAAT - Computer-Assisted Audit Technique
CBEMA - Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
CCITT - Consultative Committee on International Telegraph and Telephone: An association of international carriers and vendors responsible for generating functional and electrical recommendations for telecommunications and data communications.
CIDX - Chemical Industry Data exchange
CIS - Computerized information system
CREADV - Credit Advice Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
CREEXT - Extended Credit Advice Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
CRF - Credit Research Foundation
CRME - Credit Memo
CSF - Critical Success Factor
CUSCAR - Customs Cargo Report Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
CUSDEC - Customs Declaration Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
CUSREP - Customs Report Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
CUSRES - Customs Response Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
DCP - Disaster Contingency Planning
DEBADV - Debit Advice Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
DISA - Data Interchange Standards Organization: The non-profit membership organization that provides secretariat service to ASC X12.
EAN - European Article Number
EBDI - Electronic Business Data Interchange
ECE - The United Nations’ Economic Commission for Europe
ECR - Efficient Consumer Response
EDI - Electronic Data Interchange: The transmission of business transaction information in computer-readable form between organizations in a standard format.
EDIA - EDI Assocation
EDIFACT - EDI for Administration, Commerce, and Transport, the United Nations EDI standard
EFT - Electronic Funds Transfer
EFTA - European Free Trade Association
EIDX - Electronic Industry Data Exchange
ERS - Evaluated Receipt Settlement
FACT - Federation of Automated Coding Technologies
FAX - Facsimile
GOSIP - Government OSI Profile: A set of OSI protocols specified by the U.S. government as standards for the government’s new networks.
GTDI - Guidelines for Trade Data Interchange: A European standard for international shipping. Its formal name is UN/ECE GRDI and is also sometimes referred to as TDI or UN/TDI.
HDLC - High-Level Data Link Control: A communications protocol developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
HIBCC - Health Industry Business Communications Council
IBC - International Benchmarking Clearinghouse
IFTMAN - Arrival Notice Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
IFTMBC - Booking Confirmation Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
IFTMBF - Firm Booking Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
IFTMBP - Provisional Booking Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
IFTMCS - Instruction Contract Status Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
IFTMIN - Instruction Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
INVOIC - Invoice Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
IS - Information System
ISO - International Standards Organization: The organization responsible for developing voluntary international standards.
ISRM - Price Waterhouse Information Systems Risk Management methodology
ITT - Invitation to Tender

JEDI - Joint EDI: The JEDI Committee in the U.S. consolidating the work of TDCC and ANSI X12 in developing EDI standards; a separate UN/JEDI task group consolidating the work of ANSI X12 AND GTDI in developing the UN/EDIFACT standard.
JIT - Just-In-Time inventory management and production process
KEK - Key Encrypting Key
LAN - Local Area Network
LOGMARS - Logistics Application of Automated Marking and Reading Symbols
MAC - Message Authentication Code
MHS - Message Handling System: CCYY X-400 communications protocol.
MRP - Materials Requirement Planning
NEMA - National Electrical Manufacturers Association
ODETTE - Organization for Data Exchange Through Telecommunications in Europe: An EDI standard used by European automotive manufacturers.
ORDERS - Purchase Order Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
OSI - Open System Interconnection: A structure, based on seven-layer model developed by ISO for computer communication systems.
PAEB - Pan American EDIFACT Board
PAYEXT - Extended Payment Order Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
PAYORD - Payment Order Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
PIDX - Petroleum Industry Data Exchange: A task group within the American Petroleum Institute that is developing EDI standards for the petroleum industry.
PO - Purchase Order
POS - Point of Sale
QR - Quick Response
REMADV - Remittance Advice Message: A UN/EDIFACT message
RFP - Request for Proposals
ROI - Return on Investment
SaaS - Software as a Service
SDLC - Synchronous Data Link Control: A communications protocol development, comprising the analysis design, construction and implementation stages.
SISP - Strategic Information Systems Planning
SITPRO - Simpler Trade Procedure Board
SNA - Systems Network Architecture: A network architecture developed by IBM
TCP/IP - Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol: A communications protocol suite originally developed as research effort by the U.S. Department of Defense.
TDCC - Transportation Data Coordinating Committee: The original U.S. trade association dedicated to fostering EDI.
TRADACOMS - A domestic United Kingdom EDI standard developed by its Article Numbering Association
UCB - Unit Control Block
UCS - Uniform Communication Standard: The non-profit organization developing standards for the grocery industry.
UIG - Utility Industry Group
UNCID - Uniform Rules for Interchange of Trade Data by Teletransmission
UNSM - United Nations Standard Message: The UN/EDIFACT recommended EDI message.
UPC - Uniform Product Code
VAN - Value Added Network
VICS - Voluntary Inter-industry Communications Standard: EDI standards between apparel manufacturers and retailers.
WAN - Wide Area Network
WINS - Warehouse Information Network Standard: EDI standards for the warehouse industry
WP4 - United Nations Working Party 4 on the Facilitation of International Trade Procedure